[Xapian-discuss] Java bindings for GSoC (was Re: Google Summer of Code 2009)

[Jim]

Jarrod Roberson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
>
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>> On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 09:04:46PM -0400, Jarrod Roberson wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
>>>
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>>>> It would be helpful to have someone with more Java expertise to mentor
>>>> or co-mentor such a project, if you (or anyone else) is interested.
>>>>         
>>> I can test the java interface, I don't know enough about SWIG to be of
>>>       
>> much
>>     
>>> use there.
>>>       
>> Whereas I'm familiar with SWIG, but not really with Java (which is
>> largely why my work on new Java bindings stalled).
>>     
>
>
> well feel free to lean on me for java testing or feedback, I would love the
> Java bindings to
> be on par with the Python ones. I have a project I want to open source that
> uses Xapian.
> But I can't until the java bindings are more production ready.
>   
I unsuccessfully attempted to use SWIG to generate the Java bindings as 
a package twice.  The second time, I attempted to take a set of simple 
java examples and build a package from it.  It didn't work and the SWIG 
support group didn't have an answer, at least not one that I could 
understand.

Jim.